What's he doing?

Life continues to be a little crazy at the Naegle household, but luckily (knock on wood), we've all been healthy for the last couple of weeks and enjoying our time together.  We are preparing for the holidays and happy to have our first snow of the year! Although, I had conveniently forgotten all the downsides of snow including salty jean legs, shoveling snow and having to plan a lot more time to get to the bus stop on time.  Davis and I walked home from daycare, which took a while tonight.  When we were about to pass from the very well shoveled patch of side walk onto a snowy patch, Davis stopped and refused to go any further.  It took awhile to convince him how much fun tromping in the snow could be.  He had the hang of it by the time we got home though.

When I picked Davis up I heard a story from his day.  Declan, the five year old son of the daycare provider, was playing on his bunk bed.  When Sarah told him to sit on the bed and not the railing all the older boys (which includes Davis) looked up to see what was going on and Davis asked "What's he doing?"  I think everyone was blown away to hear a full sentence for the first time from Davis.  I think John and I heard one just a few days ago when Davis picked up the lid of the coffee grinder, which was separate from the grinder, and asked "What's this thing?".  Just recently Davis has become much more adventurous in trying out new words.  He'll try repeating most things we say now, which is so cool!

I think in the absence of time and the large lag we've had in posts, it's time to return to bullet style updates:

• Davis still loves to read, but now he has a single page in most books that he likes to just go to for a while. (I should say a LONG while on ONE page in EVERY book).
• Davis still loves stuffed animals.  He spends the night with about 10 to 15 on his bed, but dog-dog and monkey are still his favorites so far.  Dog-dog has gone to daycare a few times as well. 
• Davis LOVES trains and trucks.  Whenever he catches a glimpse of one he says "choo-choo" and pulls his arm up and down like he's blowing the horn on a train.  I had no idea they had a train decal on the wall at Trader Joe's until I went shopping there with Davis. 
• John and Davis turned all of Davis' art into a Christmas tree garland.
• Davis and I made sugar cookies for the first time and he's an excellent cookie cutter.  When asked tonight what kind of cookies we should make for Santa the answer was sugar cookies.  
• Davis misses Melanie!  We borrowed clothes from a friend for Melanie while they were here and we had the clothes in our bedroom still after they had left.  One day Davis walked into the bedroom, grabbed a pair of pants and a shirt that she wore and said "Baby!", then he took him to his changing table and pointed and that day he was asked by several people why he was wearing a pink shirt.  "Baby" seems to be the word he uses for Melanie. However, I also heard him say it when he pointed to himself in the mirror. 
• Davis has been enjoying swimming lessons immensely.  We have just finished one session and will do another in January at the YMCA.  His favorite thing is to jump into the water and he's become a great kicker! We often have to remind him at bath time that swimming and splashing is meant to be done in the pool.
• John, Davis and I are planning a trip to San Diego and LA.  I'm going to a conference in February and we're trying to plan when to Davis and John will come as well.  We'll get to spend a couple of days in LA hopefully to see James, Stephanie and Melanie!